1290 in history

1290 events chronologically

Jul 18

King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England; this was Tisha B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities

Born in 1290

Jan 3

Constance of Portugal
a Portuguese infanta , daughter of King Denis of Portugal and his wife Saint Elizabeth of Aragon.
She was born on January 3, 1290 and became Queen consort of Castile when she married King Ferdinand IV of Castile

Aug 4

Leopold I Duke of Austria
Duke of Austria and Styria – as co-ruler with his elder brother Frederick the Fair – from 1308 until his death.
Born at Vienna, he was the third son of King Albert I of Germany and Elisabeth of Gorizia-Tyrol, a scion of the Meinhardiner dynasty

Top 7 most famous people died in 1290

Jan 28

Dervorguilla of Galloway
a 'lady of substance' in 13th century Scotland, the wife from 1223 of John, 5th Baron de Balliol, and mother of John I, a future king of Scotland.

May 10

Rudolf II Duke of Austria
Duke of Austria and Styria from 1282 to 1283, jointly with his elder brother Albert I, who succeeded him.

Jun 23

Henryk IV Probus
a member of the Silesian branch of the royal Polish Piast dynasty.
He was Duke of Silesia at Wrocław from 1266, and from also 1288 High Duke of the Polish Seniorate Province of Kraków until his death in 1290

Jul 10

Ladislaus IV of Hungary
King of Hungary and Croatia from 1272 to 1290.
His mother, Elizabeth was the daughter of a chieftain of the pagan Cumans who had settled in Hungary. At the age of eight, he married Elisabeth , a daughter of King Charles I of Sicily

Sep 26

Margaret Maid of Norway
a Norwegian princess who reigned as Queen of Scots from 1286 until her death.
Her death while traveling to Scotland sparked off the disputed succession which led to the Wars of Scottish Independence

Nov 28

Eleanor of Castile
the first queen consort of Edward I of England.
She was also Countess of Ponthieu in her own right from 1279 until her death in 1290, succeeding her mother and ruling together with her husband

Dec 18

Magnus III of Sweden
King of Sweden from 1275 until his death in 1290.